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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

AFP (news.france@thelocal.com)Published: 29 Jun 2015France has deported 40 foreign imams for "preaching hatred" in the past three years, a quarter of them since the January terror attacks in Paris, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

On
June 8, 2014, Field Marshall Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was sworn in as Egypt’s
seventh president. His triumph in the presidential elections held in May 2014
was not a surprise, given the public support he received for his role in the
removal of the Muslim Brotherhood regime on June 30, 2013, and the fact that
the Brotherhood was declared illegal and was banned from participating in the
electoral process.

Monday, June 8, 2015

"My commitment is... to
reject any oppression in the name of religion... a goal that we will
reach in a peaceful and law-abiding way." — Raif Badawi.

In another example of Saudi "justice," Badawi's lawyer, Walid
Abu'l-Khayr, was jailed. He was sentenced to 15 years in jail, to be
followed by a 15-year travel ban.

What is happening to Badawi is a perfect reminder to anyone who
claims to be "offended" by "Islamophobia" why it might exist, who is to
blame for it, and that it is precisely behavior such as this that
justifies it.

Friday, June 5, 2015

The Maghreb’s
countries have started to capture attention since December 17, 2010 when
thousands of Tunisians protested against the former president Zine el-Abidine Ben
Ali. The "Jasmine Revolution", which took place in Tunisia after this tragic incident led both to the exile of the first Arab leader Ben Ali (Saudi Arabia) and, secondly, to the rapid spread of insurgency and other
desperate and angry Arab peoples of North Africa and the Middle
East where poverty, oppression and
corruption prevailed. Since December 2010 a lot has changed. Libya was split in two because of the civil war thatcaused
instability in the region, political Islamists won elections in Morocco, and in Tunisia there is a delicate
representative government after years of dictatorship.

In 2014, a group of marketing gurus produced impressive visual
material that became Turkey's public relations (PR) face across the
globe. The campaign, aiming to make Turkey one of the world's top five
tourist destinations by 2023, danced around the slogan "Home of..."
"Home of Coffee," one poster said. "Home of Trade," said another. The list
included "Home of Troy," "Home of Ancient Gods" and "Home of the
Iliad," too. But not just that. According to the PR campaign, Turkey was
also "Home of Virgin Mary" and "Home of Christianity." The latter two
sufficed to make Turkey "Home of Bad Jokes."